Beauty services firm backtracks on NHS staff ban

Benefit Cosmetics has reversed a policy to ban NHS workers who had treated covid-19 patients from using its services, after a backlash on social media. On 14 April the consultant cardiologist Lynn Miller shared on Twitter images of a comment on Facebook from nurse Rachel Kate and a response from Benefit Cosmetics.1 Miller’s tweet said, “I hope none of my NHS colleagues were hoping to go to a Benefit brow bar now restrictions have eased, because they’re refusing to take clients who work for the NHS in case they’ve been working with patients with covid. There is such a thing as PPE [personal …